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Shyloclced. In Los Angeles, Kenneth M. Springer, who said he was a Jehovah's Witness minister, was haled into court for draft-dodging, fined $1,000 and a pint of blood (for the Red Cross...
...Lambert de Levis (near Quebec City), Georges Guenette was a hunted man, suspected of evading the draft and beating up a constable. Last week four Mounties found Guenette in his father's farmhouse. He jumped out of a window, ran across the fields. Guenette fell, wounded "by a ricocheting bullet," died without the last rites of the church...
...only about 8% of its people in uniform, but it still hopes it can finish the war without seriously discommoding the remainder of its civilian population. This was the apparent meaning of a delicate revision of the rules which Selective Service sent last week to local draft boards...
Private Cain. In New York, 32-year-old Hitchhiker William J. Cain was stopped by a State Trooper, asked to show his draft card. When it was not forth coming, questions were asked, and the trooper found that Cain had been arrested eleven times in 31 months by the New Haven police, who had never discovered that he had been absent from his Army base without leave since three months before Pearl Harbor...
...agony of waiting finally becomes too great for him. He writes to his draft board that he would rather be taken than kept waiting. And the draft board obliges...